@evan literally could have used this in my talk today!
@mpjgregoire one time payouts just aren't a good long term solution. Certainly help low income folks temporarily though.
@jwildeboer Also, the idea that people on the Fediverse are *positively* instead of *negatively* motivated is interesting. I've always thought of it as the opposite -- that people get started on the Fediverse because of their disillusionment with siloed social networks, and that it's hard to maintain that motivation long enough to actually make a home here. I think there may be some survivorship bias, though: people who have been here a while have found something here that gives them meaning.
@jwildeboer That said, I don't think "I've found friends here" is the same as "my friends and family are here".
@jwildeboer That's a really interesting question! This is actually a measurable quantity -- mean path length between nodes in the graph. It's the famous "six degrees of separation" metric. Meta showed a mean path of ~4.5 hops on their network in 2016:
https://research.facebook.com/blog/2016/2/three-and-a-half-degrees-of-separation/
I have no idea what it is today, or what it is on the Fediverse -- I think it would be a really interesting calculation to do!
@emd We'd be better off sending rebates to low-income Canadians than doing this.
@mpjgregoire I’d rather the govt spend money on giving everyone a heat pump/solar
How standards work #rfc2119
To be honest, when #PierrePoilievre proposed suspending gas taxes a week or two ago, I thought it was a bit of a gimmick. I didn't expect #MarkCarney to copy it, but here we are...
Carney temporarily suspending federal fuel excise tax on gas, diesel and aviation fuel
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/carney-fuel-excise-tax-affordability-9.7162911
DATE: April 14, 2026 at 11:30AM
SOURCE: GOODNEWSNETWORK.ORG
TITLE: Another African Country Has Cleared its Debt to the International Monetary Fund
Without any fanfare from either party, it was recently revealed that Mozambique cleared its entire $701 million debt with the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The news comes as a meeting between the officials and the IMF was scheduled for August, which it had previously been presumed would include discussions about the outstanding debt becoming […]
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